Giveaways, White House rules, and pushy parents – weekly round-up

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This week we compiled all the pieces written for us by teenagers on a new page on the site. You will find them under Teens Write. If your teenager likes to write, we’d love to publish their work. We just ask that their post relates to issues faced by teens and their parents.

We’d also really like to hear from tertiary students interested injournalism internships.

We all think our children are ‘the best’ and of course it is important to be our children’s advocates, but there is a fine line between falling into the ‘pushy’ territory compared to being encouraging.

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